With the accessibility of cameras to every individual, people click pictures more in a day than clicked in the whole of the nineteenth century.

Selfies, for an instant, are clicked in majority every minute (though how many of them survive till the end is the actual thing).

People love posting these pictures, or pictures of themselves on social media a lot, and unless it is some splendid photography others too prefer seeing faces without actually realizing so.

We like to capture our own photographs because all of us are always in the need to know how the world sees us. It comes from a concept known as the ‘looking-glass self’ which talks about how we see ourselves to be not because of who we really are but through the eyes of others.

For this same reason, when a picture of ours is liked by a large number of people, it makes us feel good and confident about ourselves.

The more we click adventurous, funny, daring, sexy or so pictures, the more likely it is for people to imagine that to be your personality and for you to impress the same upon people.

Since people notice the face first on most occasions, it is the profile picture that people want to keep stellar as markers of their identity on social media accounts. A picture with a face, hence, adds more value to the profile of a person.

Even the direction in which our eyes are looking are reasons for people to get more attached to us. We have a tendency from childhood to follow the gaze of others, to look for directions and arrows. This same way we follow the eyes of people we see on screen and looking into the camera creates a deeper connection with people.

It is not just the gaze of others for which we pose a certain way, click a particular picture or show it to others. While we want to portray a specific image of ourselves to the world, we also want ourselves to believe that we are capable of being the person in the photograph. It makes us feel good about ourselves.

A daring picture can hold the memory of a daring task tackled. Perhaps the same would do if we had clicked a picture of the activity without our presence in the frame, but our presence enhances the confidence, energy and refreshes our role in the activity in our memory better.

A good photograph speaks a thousand words and touches numerous cords in our minds.

Why do we Like to Click our own Photos?

With the accessibility of cameras to every individual, people click pictures more in a day than clicked in the whole of the nineteenth century.

Selfies, for an instant, are clicked in majority every minute (though how many of them survive till the end is the actual thing).

People love posting these pictures, or pictures of themselves on social media a lot, and unless it is some splendid photography others too prefer seeing faces without actually realizing so.

We like to capture our own photographs because all of us are always in the need to know how the world sees us. It comes from a concept known as the ‘looking-glass self’ which talks about how we see ourselves to be not because of who we really are but through the eyes of others.

For this same reason, when a picture of ours is liked by a large number of people, it makes us feel good and confident about ourselves.

The more we click adventurous, funny, daring, sexy or so pictures, the more likely it is for people to imagine that to be your personality and for you to impress the same upon people.

Since people notice the face first on most occasions, it is the profile picture that people want to keep stellar as markers of their identity on social media accounts. A picture with a face, hence, adds more value to the profile of a person.

Even the direction in which our eyes are looking are reasons for people to get more attached to us. We have a tendency from childhood to follow the gaze of others, to look for directions and arrows. This same way we follow the eyes of people we see on screen and looking into the camera creates a deeper connection with people.

It is not just the gaze of others for which we pose a certain way, click a particular picture or show it to others. While we want to portray a specific image of ourselves to the world, we also want ourselves to believe that we are capable of being the person in the photograph. It makes us feel good about ourselves.

A daring picture can hold the memory of a daring task tackled. Perhaps the same would do if we had clicked a picture of the activity without our presence in the frame, but our presence enhances the confidence, energy and refreshes our role in the activity in our memory better.

A good photograph speaks a thousand words and touches numerous cords in our minds.